Most talented wife beater?

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John Lennon vs. Ike Turner vs. Jackson Browne vs. ????

― Yancey (ystrickler), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Definitely Rick Allen.

― Rahul Kamath (Rahul Kamath), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone who could restrain and beat up a person with one arm has considerable talent.

― Rahul Kamath (Rahul Kamath), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

James Brown. James Brown. James Brown.

― wl (wl), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

James Brown wins most any musical category for which he's eligible, but I must mention again that Ike Turner is widely undervalued - the stuff with Tina is often great, but he was a vital force in music for years before he met her, and one of the all-time great guitarists. How many better guitar instrumentals are there than Ho Ho? And he had the most transparent pseudonym of all time: Icky Renrut.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Warren Moon

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree Martin. Plus: Ike Turner is arguably a more effective wife beater than JB since it's all he's notorious for now. He's more of a wife-beater/musician than musician/wife-beater in pop culture circles these days thanks to Kurt Loder.

On the white rock circuit it's gotta be either Keith Moon or John Lennon. And how could someone as timid and wimpy as Jackson Browne ever beat anyone up?

― Yancey (ystrickler), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree on the Ike. When Eminem mentions your wife beating skills you know your Numero Uno.

― Claire (Claire Miccio), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Miles Dewey Davis.

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― TMFTML (TMFTML), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I nominate him from Puddle of Mudd for the least talented wifebeater trophy?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Wes Scantlin? It ends up she was beating him.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I'm going to alert some women's groups to this thread.

But seriously, James Brown. Papa don't take no mess.

― Kenan, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

ok ok: if miles davis had to marry james brown who'd wear the apron?

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Did OJ Simpson ever make a record? All sports stars made novelty records in the 70s, he must've done one

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 07:07 (twenty-three years ago)

What about the Mentors' guitarist Sickie Wifebeater?

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 07:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Most talented musican who also beats wife: James Brown

Musician most talented at beating wife: Ike Turner

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Henrietta Collins and the wife-beating child haters.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

we're forgetting about Rick James. He beats his wife/girlfriend and then has her help him beat and torture someone they kidnapped.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Stone Cold Steve Austin

― kinski (kinski), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

This is a horrible thread. (And for all I know libellous.)

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

horrible but v entertaining.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i did expect somebody would try making some kind of point along the lines of 'AHHH, beating your wife you see, does NOT make you talented!! PROVEN BY FACT!!'

but, er, they havent.

yeah, it is pretty horrible.

― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Where do I say that being a wife beater makes you talented? Of course being violent towards a partner is reprehensible. What brought up the thread is that I've been working on a piece on Jackson Browne for my day job, and came across the piece of info that he had beaten his wife. Which is another reason to hate him.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Ike Turner is arguably a more effective wife beater than JB since it's all he's notorious for now.
True. True. But didn't she finally kick the shit outta him right before she left him for good?
I have to ~~admire~~ Acknowledge his nerve. I keep wondering exactly when it was that Tina Turner started getting toned and muscular. If she was a tough looking back then as she looks now...I don't see how he had the nerve to even TRY to hit her. It would be like the last scene in Bruce Lee's "Game of Death" when the heroes realized the last warrior they had to fight was Kareeem Abdul Jabbar.

And how could someone as timid and wimpy as Jackson Browne ever beat anyone up?
Easy...he's timid and wimpy in public and in the local bar, and he gets picked on. Then he goes home and beats up the only person he knows he could beat in a fight.

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Also trivializing wife beating in this way will make evil husbands less likely to beat their wives because then the punishment has become embraced and reappropriated by the mainstream once this thread works its way into sitcoms and popular films in which Tom Hanks will play a loveable wife beater whose wife totally deserved it but it will be funny and she will laugh and then the angry hubbies will instead make their wives dinner to punish them and this will be much more effective because his cooking is THE WORST.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

she was a tough looking back then as she looks now...

Search: TV appearance singing "Proud Mary."

Jackson Browne beat up Daryl Hannah (I think), who was merely dating him at the time (I believe).

― hstencil, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: TV appearance singing "Proud Mary."
Saw it. She was lean and cute back then...but was she already a budding Auntie Entity at that point? Could she have "taken" Ike if she had gotten the nerve?
I know the current Tina could "take" that coke-fried twit in six hits (1 hit her punching him, and 5 pieces of him hitting the ceiling...) but do you think "Proud Mary"-era Tina could wipe the floor with Ike?

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I hope no one is genuinely offended by this. I don't see anything in it condoning 'wife beating' at all. I was very active in a substantial thread on 'domestic violence' (there really is no good term for this) on ILE, and didn't feel remotely inclined to start acting po-faced and PC on this.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

The funniest post in here is "The thread says talented".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Talented ?

Paul Gascoigne !

― Darren, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

The funniest post in here is "The thread says talented".

Except now it doesn't. oh well.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:31 (twenty-three years ago)

How come all the posts I've ever noticed being mysteriously deleted involve Taylor Parkes? Is nothing libellously bad ever said about anyone else?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

He is one of the 12ft lizards.

I delete sporadically based on:

- unproven-ness or otherwise of allegations
- plausibility or otherwise of allegations
- seriousness or otherwise of allegations (seriousness of tone not crime)
- likelihood of person involved finding them

i.e. "J Lo is a member of Al Qaeda" would probably not be deleted; "[LABEL BOSS] buys good reviews with cocaine" did get the chop.

I dont remember deleting any other TP-related stuff though.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 17 October 2002 07:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, Stone Cold Steve Austin is a good call. His cover of "We Are The Champions" holds a special place in the hearts of all rasslin' fans.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 17 October 2002 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but thats not libel...J Lo IS a member of Al Qaeda. In fact, bin Laden is her subservient fuck toy.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Thursday, 17 October 2002 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

[LABEL BOSS] buys good reviews with cocaine

Ah, it all makes sense now.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 October 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I just got a subpeona from the law firm of Dewey, Cheatom and Howe. Apparently I'm being sued for defamation of character. Apparently the plaintiff insists that he is NOT J Lo's personal fuck toy. Osama is Richard Gere's personal fuck toy. Well, I stand corrected. Sorry for the confusion. Now...back to the thread already in progress...

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Thursday, 17 October 2002 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

any wonder why ILM sacred cow M.E.Smith is being left outta this discussion?

― gygax!, Thursday, 17 October 2002 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Every picture I've ever seen of Mark E Smith just screams C.R.E.E.P! I guess he was learning karate and wanted to see if he could smash Brix with his bare hands.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Thursday, 17 October 2002 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

JOHN FUCKING DENVER!

Not only did he beat his wife, drive drunk, crash planes, and long to be Russian astronaut but he also wrote uh... uh...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 October 2002 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Russian Astronaut? Thats new. Never Heard that one before.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Friday, 18 October 2002 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

"Country Road" is one of Denver's most memorable songs, along with "Rocky Mountain High."

― hstencil, Friday, 18 October 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

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